Wrestling

Mark Hawald enters his sixth season as the head wrestling
coach at Mount Union.

During the 2011-2012 season, Hawald led the Purple Raiders
to a second straight Ohio Athletic Conference Tournament
title with five conference champions and was named OAC Coach
of the Year for the second straight year. The Raiders finished
14th at the NCAA Division III National Tournament with
two All-Americans.

Hawald was named 2011 d3wrestle.com National Coach of the Year
after leading the Purple Raiders to a 14-0 dual meet record, making
Mount Union the only undefeated team in all of Division III
Wrestling. The Raiders won their first OAC Tournament in over a
decade with five Champions and finished eighth at the NCAA Division
III National Tournament with three All-Americans.

While at Mount Union, Hawald has coached seven
All-Americans and 14 OAC Champions. Five wrestlers among the top 11
in career wins have competed under Hawald's tutelage.

In addition to success on the mat, Coach Hawald has pushed his
team in the classroom. The Purple Raiders were named a NWCA Scholar
All-American team, five wrestlers were named Scholar All-Americans,
and three were named Academic All-OAC.

In his first three seasons at Mount Union, Hawald saw regular
growth with the team. The team was sixth in the OAC in 2008 with a
3-13 record, second in the OAC in 2009 with a 6-4 record, and
second in the OAC in 2010 with a 9-5 record.

A native of Solon, Ohio, served as an assistant coach at Notre
Dame College (Ohio), prior to Mount Union.

As a four-year letter winner at 174 pounds at John Carroll,
Hawald is familiar with the OAC as he was a four-time OAC Champion
and 2004 All-American. He is the Blue Streaks’ all-time
wrestling leader in career wins (122) and earned a bachelor's
degree in accounting in 2005 and a master's in business
administration in 2007.

Off the mat he earned Academic All-American honors three times
and was John Carroll’s OAC Clyde Lamb Award winner in 2005,
in recognition as the institution’s top male
student-athlete.

In addition to coaching at Mount Union, Mark is also an
instructor in the Department of Economics, Accounting, and Business
Administration.